Can RTX 5070 12GB run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B?

NVIDIA · 12 GB GDDR7 · 672 GB/s bandwidth · DeepSeek · 14.8B · model ctx up to 128K

Partly — DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B at Q4 fits the RTX 5070 12GB (12 GB GDDR7) at 4K context (≈ 10.62 GB) but not at the default 8K (≈ 12.1 GB needed). Use a shorter context or partial offload. Decode at Q4/8K: ≈ 81.2 tok/s (estimated, batch 1). FP16 needs ≈ 33.56 GB — does not fit on this card. Estimates come from memory-bandwidth math; rows tagged measured override estimates. Relative ranking is more reliable than absolute tok/s. Methodology.

Fit & speed by quant and context

Quant	Context	VRAM needed	Fits?	tok/s (decode)
Q4	4K	10.62 GB	Yes	28.9 est.
Q4	8K default	12.1 GB	No	81.2 est.
Q4	32K	20.98 GB	No	27.0 est.
FP16	4K	32.08 GB	No	3.2 est.
FP16	8K default	33.56 GB	No	2.9 est.
FP16	32K	42.44 GB	No	1.8 est.

Fits = weights + KV(ctx) + 1 GB overhead ≤ 95% of VRAM. Measured anchors are context-agnostic; the fit verdict is recomputed per context. A missing tok/s means the model is far beyond this card (offload-only territory).

VRAM breakdown at 8K context

Quant	Weights	KV cache	Overhead	Total needed	RTX 5070 12GB VRAM
Q4	8.14 GB	2.96 GB	1 GB	12.1 GB	12 GB
FP16	29.6 GB	2.96 GB	1 GB	33.56 GB	12 GB

Other GPUs that run DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B

• B200 192GB SXM — ≈344.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• MI300X 192GB — ≈227.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• H200 141GB SXM5 — ≈206.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• H100 80GB SXM5 — ≈144.0 tok/s Q4 est.
• Gaudi 3 128GB — ≈140.9 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 4090 24GB — ≈92.5 tok/s Q4 measured
• A100 80GB SXM4 — ≈87.7 tok/s Q4 est.
• RTX 5090 32GB — ≈77.1 tok/s Q4 est.

All GPUs for DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-14B →

Other models for the RTX 5070 12GB

• Qwen3-0.6B — ≈534.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• gemma-3-1b-it — ≈427.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-1B-Instruct — ≈356.4 tok/s Q4 est.
• Qwen3-1.7B — ≈213.8 tok/s Q4 est.
• Llama-3.2-3B-Instruct — ≈133.6 tok/s Q4 est.
• Mistral-7B-Instruct-v0.3 — ≈120.5 tok/s Q4 measured
• Phi-4-mini-instruct — ≈112.5 tok/s Q4 est.
• Phi-4-mini-reasoning — ≈112.5 tok/s Q4 est.

All models on the RTX 5070 12GB →